Content Managing System for Mobile Terminal Updates

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Current Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions are inadequate for mobile environments, as they often fail to allow unified browsing and updating of various content formats, such as texts and images, on portable terminals like smartphones, and do not support seamless data input or format conversion for external access.

Innovation Solution

A content managing system that includes a content updatable location registering device, a content selecting device, an updated data inputting device, and an updated content generating device, which allows users to register, select, input, and generate updated content on a portable terminal, while also incorporating a format converting device to ensure compatibility with the terminal's capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If ECM solution is adapted to mobile environment with portable terminals, then accessibility and convenience of content browsing is improved, but capability to update and modify content is lost or limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent browsing accessibilityVSAvoidcontent updating capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The content is segmented into multiple locations or regions, where specific locations are designated as updatable. The portable terminal is enabled to update only at these predetermined locations rather than the entire content, thus providing update capability while maintaining system control and stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Updatable locations are registered and designated in advance before the portable terminal accesses the content. This preliminary action defines which parts of the content can be modified, enabling the terminal to perform updates only at these pre-approved locations, thereby balancing accessibility with controlled modifiability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If all locations of content are made updatable on portable terminal, then content modification flexibility is improved, but system complexity and security risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent modification flexibilityVSAvoidsystem control complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The content is segmented into multiple locations or regions, where specific locations are designated as updatable. The portable terminal is enabled to update only at these predetermined locations rather than the entire content, thus providing update capability while maintaining system control and stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different locations of the content have different properties: some locations are designated as updatable while others are read-only. This local differentiation allows flexible updates at specific points while maintaining integrity and control over the rest of the content, reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Adaptability or versatility

If content in various formats is supported on portable terminal, then content compatibility is improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent format compatibilityVSAvoidformat conversion capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces a format conversion mechanism that acts as an intermediary between the stored content in various formats and the portable terminal. The content is converted to terminal-compatible formats during access, enabling broad format support without requiring the terminal itself to handle multiple formats natively.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS8203735B2Content managing system
Publication Date: 2012.06.19 RAKUTEN GROUP INC
  • US8203735B2 patent drawing
  • US8203735B2 patent drawing
  • US8203735B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A managing system causes content managed by a server to be updated by a portable terminal by means of a communication network and includes a content updatable location registering device which registers a location which can be updated by a portable terminal.